CONCLUSION: This study has identified that improved adherence to hip fracture standards are associated with improved mortality at 30 days and one year.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian governments and health care organizations implemented restrictions on continuing care residents. From an ethical lens, governments and health care organizations were focused on preventing harm through
Several studies have examined the possible relationship between air pollutants and the risk of COVID-19 but most returned controversial findings. We tried to assess the association between (short- and long-term) exposure to particulate and gaseous
Currently nitazoxanide is being assessed as a candidate therapeutic for SARS-CoV-2. Nitazoxanide is rapidly broken down to its active metabolite tizoxanide upon administration. Unlike many other candidates being investigated, tizoxanide plasma
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents and emerging adults experienced social and structural inequities and evinced more psychosocial adjustment difficulties than cisgender, heterosexual youths before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The
CONCLUSIONS: Visitor restrictions prevent family caregivers from being physically present at patients' bedside, leading to complex and detrimental impacts such as caregivers feeling that they were not engaged in their loved one's care planning until
INTRODUCTION: Colistin is a lipopeptide antibiotic administered as an inactive prodrug-colistin methanesulfonate (CMS). Colistin is a drug with a narrow therapeutic window; the limiting factors are mainly nephrotoxicity and neurotoxicity, dependent